I have been so super busy the past couple of weeks. I am so behind in WIW's--lots I wanted to share but never had time with work, call, school starting, and the baby being super fussy and waking up all night. So I'll just start with today and work my way backward later if I have time!

Wearing Rae's Spiegel lemming jacket with her Brahmin bag, Angie's VC
striped tube skirt and Una's gold OTBT booties to top it off. Quadruple
lemming! Thanks Rae and Una and Angie for the inspiration!

I fell hard for Rae's (and Una's and Marley's) Brahmin bag, especially since I had the perfect matchy matchy skirt to wear with it! Someone had to do the matchy matchy and you know it had to be me! I LOVE this Brahmin bag. Very Kate Spade-ish. The details are so interesting--the croc texture is just divine. I see what Rae meant about wanting to pet her bag all day. And the lining is very soft and well made. Ms. Scarlet has a new friend!

I thought about doing a K/R on the booties, but then decided I am keeping them and just wore them anyways. The metallic gold is burnished so it's not too bright/over the top. The footbed is nicely padded and the heel height is not too high. My feet fit perfectly so I didn't have to wear socks, but I think wearing it with no-show socks would work too. I know Rae had trouble with sweaty feet in these--I did notice a slight bit of clamminess at the ankle but my feet weren't sweaty. I have skinny ankles (9") and maybe have a bit of flowerpot syndrome in the closeup side view (5), but not noticeable from the front and it's nothing compared to usual (like those Munro booties!). So there you have it--I totally second Una's recommendation for these...so comfy! These are going to be hospital workhorses for me. Like wearing Dansko clogs, but more stylish. Oh, and I found out OTBT stands for Off the Beaten Track. Cool!

Mini-updates on the kiddos. DD is 6 and just started 1st grade. Unfortunately DD was rolling down a grassy hill and twisted her arm in a funny way and hurt her elbow. They couldn't tell on the X rays if it was broken or not--they think probably not, but because of the location at the growth plate they decided to be conservative and put her in a cast for 3 weeks. Poor DD! Not again! (She broke her clavicle last year and was in a sling for 6 weeks, same arm). And I had just signed her up for gymnastics. So the gymnastics and swimming lessons are on hold. Hopefully she gets her cast off, the day before we go to Hawaii. Otherwise she is going to be very upset if she can't swim there! Just wanted to point out her love of extreme pattern mixing--ikat dress plus floral jeans plus strawberry shoes. She always chooses her own outfits. And love her selection of cobalt blue with neon green stripe for her cast. She's got her own sense of style already!

DS1 is 3.5 and is doing well in preschool. He's such a sweetie pie. Here's a pic of him canoeing with daddy.

DS2 is 6 months now and almost crawling--he does a combination of rolling and army crawl to scoot across the room. He can grab everything--I need to clean up the house and baby proof! Unfortunately I found out the hard way that he has an egg allergy (he started waking up every hour at night screaming and developed a rash after I ate an omelette), and now I remembered that he did have a mild reaction on his skin tests to dairy, soy and egg. So now my diet is even more restricted. Gah! Makes it so tough to eat, especially when we go out! But good news, we just started solids (avocado and squash so far). The kids are having lots of fun feeding him!

Thanks for looking and commenting!